Combined heel-lift wear and securing plate



March 22', 1932. L. WEINSTEIN COMBINED HEEL LIFT WEAR AND SECURING PLATE Filed May 19, 1930 i/\/ VENTOR Zea n 1442/05/50"). ,BY M

T TOR/VEY Patented Mar. 2 2, 1932 UNETED STATES LEON WEINSTEIN, 0F $1. LOUIS, MISSOURI COMBINED.HEEL-LIFT WEAR. AND SECURING PLATE Application filed May 19,

This invention relates to a certain new and useful improvement in combined heellift wear and securing plates and has for its object the provision, as a new article of manufacture, of a plate for the purpose stated that may be cheaply and economically produced, which may be conveniently manipulated, and which is eficient in the performance of its intended functions.

And with the above and other objects in view, my invention resides in the novel features of form and construction of the plate and in the arrangement and combination thereof with a heel-lift, all as hereinafter de- 15 scribed and pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings,- Figure 1 illustrates fragmentallyin inverted plan a shoe having a heel-lift secured by and equipped with a plurality of combined 0 wear and securing plates embodying my invention;

Figure 2 is a side elevational view, partly broken away and in section, of the shoe and its parts as illustrated in Figure 1; and

Figure 3 is an enlarged transverse sectional view of one of the plates, shown in connection with its attaching nail.

Referring now more in detail and by reference characters to the drawings, which illustrate a preferred embodiment of my invention, A designates a shoe of any standard type and construction, B is the fixed heelportion of the shoe A, and O designates a renewable heel-lift contoured to conform or correspond with that of the heel B and constructed preferably of rubber integrally equipped upon its outer face 0 With a series or plurality of circular or disk-shaped knobs or protuberances 1, the lift C being formed with a corresponding series or plurality of transverse openings or ways 2 for accommodating attaching nails D and respectively axially concentric with, and opening to the outer lift-face 0 through, the knobs l, as best seen in Figures 1 and 2.

E, E, designate the heel-securing and Wear plates of my invention, which, through the use and employment of a suitable shearing, drawing, and forming die or dies, are c011- structed from a section of suitable sheet metal 1930. Serial No. 453,577.

to comprise a body-portion of disk-shape and diametrical dimension to correspond or conform substantially to that of the respective lift-knobs l, the body of the plate E being axially laterally drawn to include a central conoidal recess 3 and being also sheared and marginally drawn, so that its marginal edge or rim is relatively thin and offset from the plane of the intermediate plate-portion 5. Thus the disk E is dished or convened, as at 6, surrounding its central recess 3 to seat upon and substantially house a respective lif knob 1, the metal of the plate E, in the pro duction of the finished plate, being further drawn so that the base 7 of its central recess 3 is further offset than the rim & from the intermediate portion 5 so as to somewhat deeply fit into the heel-lift openings 2, the plate E, at and through the base 8 of its recess 3, being apertured, as at 8, as shown, to

accommodate the shank 9 of the attaching nail D, whose conoidal head 10 is then adapted to seat and be substantially housed or depressed within the recess 3, so that the wear upon the plate E, when in use, is borne by the thicker intermediate portion 5.

As so constructed, the use of the plate is obvious. The lift G being disposed upon the heel B, the several plates E are disposed upon the respective lift-knobs 1, and the lift C is then attached to the heel B by means of respective nails D passed through the respective plates E through the registering apertures 9 and ways 2 into, and clinched securingly under, the heel B, the plates E, as so attached, functioning efiiciently both in the securement of the lift C upon the heel and subsequently as wear-plates for the lift. As shown, each of the plates E is also preferably formed with one or more prongs 11 projecting preferably integrally from the rim for engaging the lift C for retaining the respective plate E from rotary movement relatively to its housed knob 1.

It is to be understood that changes or modifications in the form and construction of the plate may be made and substituted for those herein shown and described without departing from the nature and principle of my invention.

, Having thus described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1s:

' In a shoe, a shoe-heel, a lift provided with 5 a surface protuberance and having a nail-way opening through the protuberance, and means for securing the lift to and upon the heel,

said means including a disc-shaped body-portion havin an offset marginal rim and a cen- 10 tra-l conoi a1 recess Whose base is apertured and offset laterally from the plane of the rim to registerably fit in said Way, said body-portion having a convexed formation intermediate the rim and recess to fit over and house 15 said protuberance, and a nail having'a head seated in said recess-base and a shank securingly' projected through said registering aperture and way into the heel.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my 2 name to this specification.

' LEON W'EINSTEIN. 

